Public Money Pod
Center for Municipal Finance
4.8from 35 ratings
- 145
- Episodes
- 85
- Transcribed
- 35
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Public Money Pod
Each year state and local governments spend $4 trillion dollars. Where does that money come from? Where does it go? Who manages it? And what do citizens and taxpayers have to show for it? In this podcast we explore the budgets, bonds, and bureaucrats at the heart of state and local public finance. The Public Money Pod is a production of the University of Chicago's Center for Municipal Finance. It is co-hosted by Liz Farmer and Justin Marlowe.
- Publisher
- Center for Municipal Finance
- Category
- business · government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Sept 2022
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
85 of 145 episodes have a transcript.
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
110-Degree Classrooms: How Building Maintenance Shapes Student Outcomes, with Jackie Nowicki
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Authentic citizen engagement in local budgeting with Joe Snyder
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
"means ought to be proportioned" - Rethinking state budgeting with Wendy Edelberg
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110-Degree Classrooms: How Building Maintenance Shapes Student Outcomes, with Jackie Nowicki
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You can tell us a little bit about how you define that and talk about the incidence of chronic facilities problems and the work that you all did. Right. So chronic is what it sounds like, you know, kind of the plain English definition, something that is persisting, longstanding, you know, recurring. So our main approach here was to do a nationally generalizable survey of school districts. And on that survey, we asked about a whole range of facilities issues. We asked each respondent to tell us whether that was an isolated incident or a chronic incident. So by far the most common chronic issues were water intrusion and excessive temperatures, you know, excessive heat or excessive cold in classrooms. […]
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- Jackie Nowicki
- Joe Snyder
- Wendy Edelberg
- Noah Baskett
- Tyler Bahr
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 21 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 14 ratings
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- 77
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 82
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